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Milestones |
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1855 |
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College
of California chartered
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1860 |
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Berkeley site
of College of California dedicated |
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1868 |
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College
of California became University of California,
with Berkeley the first campus
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1909 |
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An existing
Santa Barbara city normal school became
Santa Barbara State Normal School of Manual Arts and Home Economics |
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1919 |
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The name
was shortened to Santa Barbara State Normal School
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1921 |
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The school
changed from a 2-year to a 4-year program and was renamed the Santa
Barbara State Teachers College
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1935 |
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With
academic diversification that included liberal arts degrees, the
word "Teachers" was dropped from the name, so institution
called Santa Barbara State College
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1944 |
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Santa Barbara
State College became campus of UC;
Geography classes offered by faculty in various departments |
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1954 |
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College
moved from Santa Barbara (Riviera and Mesa) campuses to old marine
base on Goleta Point
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1958 |
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Santa
Barbara designated a general campus; renamed
University of California Santa Barbara
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1963 |
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Geography
Program begun under direction of Dean of College of Letters and
Science |
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1963 |
Berl Golomb
hired and started building Geography Program; (separated 1971) |
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1964 |
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Geography had
two full-time instructors and offered five classes |
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1965 |
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Geography minor
established; 12 classes offered |
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1966 |
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Geography
major established in February; first BA granted in June
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1969 |
John "Jack"
Estes hired and taught Air Photo Interpretation
(died 2001) |
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1969 |
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Program offered
five lower division and 32 upper division courses; eight faculty
and two full-time researchers were on board |
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1971 |
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Program
diminishes in faculty (down to five) and class offerings (only three
lower division and 20 upper division);
Jack Estes gathered research team for remote sensing
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1973 |
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Biogeography
offered for the first time |
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1974 |
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Geography
freed from control of Dean to become an official Department; Cartography
offered for the first time |
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1974 |
David Simonett
hired and given position of the first Department Chair, though wasn't
on campus until 1975 (died 1990);
Alan Strahler hired (separated 1982);
Christopher Clayton hired (separated 1980);
Jeff Dozier hired (transferred to Bren 1997) |
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1974 |
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David Simonett
chair July 1974 to June 1980 |
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1976 |
Terence Smith
hired |
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1977 |
Reginald Golledge hired;
Waldo Tobler hired (retired 1994)
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1978 |
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Remote Sensing
Research Unit used VICAR-IBIS software, supported by Engineering
Department, on huge computers (the VAX 1145, initally, then a VAX
1170) for image processing |
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1978 |
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Geography granted
first master's degree |
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1979 |
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Remote Sensing
Research Unit added digital/optical film scanner and film writers
to VAX system, enabling digital image input and output, and generating
Geography's first color images (link to image
sample 1 and image
sample 2) |
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1980 |
Richard Church
hired |
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1980 |
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Estimated year
the first ArcInfo license
purchased from ESRI |
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1980 |
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Reginald Golledge
July 1980 to June 1984 |
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1980 |
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Extramural
research funds reach $650,000 annually, largely for Estes' remote
sensing research; PhD in Geography approved |
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1981 |
Raymond Smith
hired (retired 1994, but continues research within Institute for
Computational Earth System Science - ICESS) |
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1982 |
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First
$1 million year in research funding; Department establishes its
own computer center; Geography granted first PhD; Waldo Tobler elected
to National Academy of Sciences and hiked to the top of Mt Whitney
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1982 |
Joel Michealsen hired;
Barbara Buttenfield hired (separated 1984);
Helen Couclelis hired
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1983 |
Frank Davis
hired (transferred to Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
2000);
Patrick Harker hired (separated 1984);
Julia Allen-Jones hired (separated 1991) |
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1984 |
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Richard Church
July 1984 to 1988 |
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1984 |
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Remote Sensing
Research Unit first began using ERDAS software to do remote sensing
image processing and GIS; an IBM PC (8088) was used, which had a
20 MB hard drive and ran at 88KHz |
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1985 |
Luc Anselin
hired (separated 1994) |
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1986 |
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David Simonett
elected Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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1986 |
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Jeff Dozier
elected Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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1988 |
Hugo Loaiciga
hired; Michael Goodchild hired |
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1988 |
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Ray Smith chair
July 1988 to June 1991 |
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1988 |
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Jeff Dozier
and Ray Smith reorganized the earth science component of an organized
research unit named Computer Systems Laboratory (started in 1972
under Engineering) into the Computer Systems Laboratory/Center for
Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics (CSL/CRSEO), which in 1995
was renamed Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS);
Ray Smith was first Director (1988-1996); Catherine Gautier became
Director in 1996; Dave Siegel appointed Director in 2002 |
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1988 |
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Reginald Golledge
founds Research Unit on Spatial Cognition and Choice (RUSCC)
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1988 |
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National Center
for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) founded initially
with an NSF award and continues under a memorandum between UCSB,
the University of Maine, and the University at Buffalo
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1988 |
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Waldo Tobler
received honorary doctorate from University of Zurich, Switzerland |
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1990 |
Catherine Gautier
hired; David Siegel hired; David Lanter hired (separated 1994) |
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1990 |
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Reginald Golledge
elected as Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of
Science |
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1991 |
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Joint
PhD program with San Diego State University started
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1991 |
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Jack Estes
chair July 1991 to June 1992 |
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1991 |
Leal Mertes
hired;
Libe Washburn hired |
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1991 |
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Jeff Dozier
elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union |
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1992 |
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Joel Michaelsen
chair July 1992 to December 1997 |
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1992 |
Dan Montello
hired;
Jim Proctor hired |
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1993 |
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Jeff Dozier
receives NASA Public Service Medal |
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1994 |
Dar Roberts
hired |
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1995 |
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Diamond-Graham
ranks UCSB's Geography #1
for the number
of citations/awards for a given department or program divided by
the number of program faculty |
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1995 |
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National Research
Council ranks UCSB's Geography #4 in nation based upon reputation
by peer review |
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1995 |
Oliver Chadwick
hired; Tommy Dickey hired |
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1995 |
Carl Sundbeck,
SBCC professor, hired to teach Geography 3A & B |
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1996 |
Keith Clarke
hired |
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1997 |
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Varenius (research
project) funded by NSF until 2001 |
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1998 |
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Michael Goodchild
chair January 1998 to December 2000 |
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1998 |
Stuart Sweeney
hired |
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1999 |
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CSISS founded
as a result of an NSF award that runs through 2004 |
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1999 |
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Descartes Lab
for undergraduate education in GIS opened |
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1999 |
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Helen Couclelis
receives Honorary Doctorate, Utrecht University, the Netherlands |
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2000 |
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Reginald
Golledge elected President of AAG
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2000 |
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Reginald Golledge
awarded International Geography Gold Medal,
Institute of Australian Geographers |
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2000 |
Sara Fabrikant
hired |
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2001 |
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Keith Clarke
chair January 2001 to present |
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2001 |
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UCSB Administration
promises Geography 25,000 square feet of space in Ellison Hall so
that most of the scattered Geographers can come under one roof (link
to memo from Executive Vice Chancellor) |
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2001 |
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Keith
Clarke elected President of CaGIS
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2001 |
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Reginald Golledge
receives Honorary LLD from Simon Fraser
University (Canada) |
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2001 |
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Reginald Golledge
receives Honorary PhD from Gotebord University
(Sweden) |
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2001 |
Phaedon Kyriakidis
hired |
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2001 |
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Geography Department
developed new "Vision Statement" |
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2001 |
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Jack Estes
receives NASA Public Service Medal posthumously |
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2002 |
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Michael
Goodchild elected to National Academy of Sciences, selected for
membership in the Royal Society of Canada, chosen for University
Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Educator of
the Year Award
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2002 |
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Hugo Loaiciga
received a 2002 Service to the Profession Award from the American
Society of Civil Engineers and the Environmental and Water Resources
Institute for his "longstanding contributions to research and
technical activities" of the two groups. |
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2002 |
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Ray Smith received
Jerlov Award in recognition of his contribution made to the advancement
of knowledge of the nature and consequences of light in the ocean |
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2002 |
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Reginald Golledge
received University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
(UCGIS) 2002 Research Award |
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2002 |
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UCSB Geography
faculty averaged $487,000 in extramural funds per faculty member
for the year 2002. This amount leads the whole Science Division
at UCSB, $150,000 over the nearest rival (Physics) |
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2003 |
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Michael Goodchild
selected by peers to give UCSB Faculty Research Lecture |
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2003 |
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Keith Clarke
selected as UCGIS Educator of the Year |
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2003 |
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Catherine Gautier
awarded Goddard Space Flight Center's annual Teamwork Award for
her work on the AIRS science team that is part of the Aqua Project |
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2003 |
Christopher
Still hired |
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2003 |
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Michael Goodchild
chosen for Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal |
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2004 |
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Mo Lovegreen
hired as MSO (the top staff person), only the second MSO ever employed
by the Geography Department. She replace Meryl Wieder, who retired
after 36 years of service to UCSB |
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2004 |
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Keith Clarke
selected to status of American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
(ACSM) Fellow, for his contributions to ACSM and the professions
of Cartography and GIS |
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